clearly you favor superficial gains.... over substantial individual loss... it's one of the problems I pointed out earlier.... frankly, if people bothered to take in and examine all I've explained as it's meant to be.... they'd realize what I consider music... it's really right there in the open... it's not a matter of elitist withheld information or knowledge... it's a matter of unobservant/ lazy people that prefer to heed to their biases rather than really attempt to understand something that goes against their biases... I could never define what I consider music by simply pointing to one style, one genre, one era... that's why I'm always annoyed by "best band ever" "best voice ever" "best song" "best album" even "best composor" claims... it's absurd... quality music, since it's emergence, is too vast in selection, transcends a single technique, expression.... once again, no snobbery on my end... when that accusation is tossed about adamantly despite all proof against it... it becomes a mere convinient excuse for those that seek to sustain and maintain mediocrity... excuses to remain as as we are tends to be the more appealing route... than the demanding effort to be we could be... and once again, the sports analogies are terrible....
loos like another music "expert" yelling his opinion about pop female singers again... Christina Aguilera may show off her body but she's also one of the best vocalists of ALL TIME. I guess it's more of a waste of talent but hey, they wanna get paid so...
That was quite a lot of words being used to say so little. I was just wondering because I've posted about music here and there and you've come in with snide remarks about how I probably am attending "power chord academy" or some such, as if you assume I have no musical taste or talent. Being an English Lit major, I'd assume you know less about poetry than I do, but I wouldn't condemn you for talking about how you adore "The love song of J Alfred Prufrock" or some other staple of High School English Class. When you go out of your way to point out other people's tastes are uncultured that absolutely reeks of snobbery my friend. What gives you the right to come into this domain and assume that you're the end-all knowledge or some sort of expert on the arts? The arts are personal. Expression is personal. Music's worst day was hitting the main stream. The radio, the TV. Destroyed it. Art isn't supposed to come to you, you're supposed to discover it by searching it out.
and that is quite a lot said for no purpose or argument.... unless you're implying that you find this, and Beyonce's "work"... artistic...? a genuine personal expression...? really...? to protest rampantly encouraged and embraced mediocrity... with an intolerance for frivolity in something transcendent... keeping to higher expectations for something that calls for higher expectations...does not make one a mere snob crying out for mere "sophistication"... deriding a lack of "culture"...that would be just frivolity decrying frivolity... and I disagree with the whole "mainstream" is inherently detrimental to the music.... it's lazy thinking... narrow-minded... for one that speaks about artistic discovery, this certainly reeks of an absence of it... a deprived point of view... can't see and process beyond that which has been so readily spoonfed... making your response come off like a stand without a stance... wasted effort... save your energy for matters you don't keep such a limited perception of...
I can't help but say that every time I see someone use an excessive amount of ellipses, I can't help but think they're stoned out of their mind or else that they're some old hermit-sage perched on a wi-fi connected mountain. but yeah, to make this relevant, style triumphs over substance in our society, the moral decay of music from 1950s blues speaking of necrophilia and cold-hearted murder to little girls scantily dressed on a stage is so very saddening, sex sells and it's wrong and so forth
<br> After reading this post I cannot take you seriously anymore. You really have no idea what you are talking about...
sorry could not respond to you earlier... was reading Poe by the fireside... But it seems to be that your logic is both lazy and insanely small-minded... ... ... ... ... ... you know little of art and instead ... hide behind a false sense of pretentiousness no doubt cultivated as an internet persona... ...You type out paragraphs that appear on the surface to be well constructed thoughts... but really they say nothing... You are a one trick pony... you add nothing to any discussion and when asked about your own tastes you only reply with more insults and assertions that others cannot begin to comprehend art in the way you do... ... ... Also you love anal sex.
Let the record show, that I was the first to emulate Hmm's writing style. And to clarify the last sentence, is it ok to assume that its as a recipient?
Bah. I've been using random ellipses and double spacing my posts long since before Hmm began feigning disgust at everything possible. abhorrence. pish posh!
moe, as usual, your idiocy knows no bounds... to subscribe to a "taste" is to possess a bias... a preference... what part of "I have no musical bias" are you having trouble understanding...?
The musical bias isn't the issue. Its the snooty responses and down talking. I can't speak for anyone else, but this is the problem thats bugging me.
well, when you express and present a prespective more profound than that of a common teenager, like moe and several others here, that offends personal "set" bias...over a subject matter of particular influence... most will do all in their power to find fault externally, rather than the actual faulty internal source... I, however, am never surprised when this turns out to be the case... sadly, even learned individuals can have more trouble identifying what's right in front them, than seeing beyond what's already there... more tragically, even in their own fields of expertise... which suffice it to say, doesn't at all apply here... but, it's worth expressing...
ah, well... you'll simply have to excuse me... when exposed constantly to the dealings and thoughts of immature children... one tends to express himself smidgen of intolerance... however, unintentional...
